The Conversation

What is reinforcement learning? An AI researcher explains a key method of teaching machines – and how it relates to training your dog

Understanding intelligence and creating intelligent machines are grand scientific challenges of our times. The ability to learn from experience is a cornerstone of intelligence for machines and living ...
Forbes

From Turing To DeepSeek, Reinforcement Learning Soars To AI Summit

Using a bunch of carrots to train a pony and rider. (Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are the recipients of the Turing Award for ...
Forbes

The Rise And Rise Of Reinforcement Learning: AI’s Quiet Revolution

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Author, Researcher and Speaker on Technology and Business Innovation. Apr 19, 2025, 03:24am EDT Apr 21, 2025, 10:40am EDT ...
Geeky Gadgets

Why Reinforcement Learning Could Be AI’s Biggest Flaw Yet

What if the very techniques we rely on to make AI smarter are actually holding it back? A new study has sent shockwaves through the AI community by challenging the long-held belief that reinforcement ...
NextBigFuture

Looking at Current AI Learning Frameworks to Create Learning Pipelines to Achieve Superintelligence

Andrej Karpathy says that reinforcement learning is still terrible but better than all other AI learning approaches. Elon Musk believes there is a 10% chance that XAI Grok 5 can achieve AGI. Musk ...
TechCrunch

AI pioneers scoop Turing Award for reinforcement learning work

Two trailblazing computer scientists have won the 2024 Turing Award for their work in reinforcement learning, a discipline in which machines learn through a reward ...

The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path

In 2016, an AI program he developed at Google DeepMind, AlphaGo, taught itself to play the famously difficult game of Go with a kind of mastery that went far beyond mimicry. Silver has since founded ...
The New York Times

Turing Award Goes to 2 Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco In 1977, Andrew Barto, as a researcher at the ...
NextBigFuture

Reinforcement Learning Does NOT Fundamentally Improve AI Models

Reinforcement Learning does NOT make the base model more intelligent and limits the world of the base model in exchange for early pass performances. Graphs show that after pass 1000 the reasoning ...